DIG Saharanpur favours honour killing and stuns U.P.

A senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh wants parents to kill their daughters if they are caught eloping with someone. This shocking suggestion was given by Satish Kumar Mathur, DIG Saharanpur range, on Tuesday.

Shaukeen Mohammad, a resident of Kaserwa village of Prabudhnagar district, requested him to ask policemen to trace his 14-year-old daughter Ishrat Jahan, who was allegedly abducted one-and-ahalf- month ago.

'I don't have any magical power to find your daughter. But if your daughter has eloped, you should be ashamed of it and end your life.

'I would have killed my sister if she had eloped or else I would have committed suicide,' Mathur said.

His statement was caught on video camera by local mediapersons present there to cover his visit.

Ishrat was allegedly abducted by two youths from her house. The police had registered a case against Mokin Satpal and Oma Atra a month after the incident. But there was still no trace of the minor girl.

Apprehensive that she could be raped and killed by the youths who have criminal antecedents, over 50 villagers had reached the SP office along with Shaukeen.

Mathur ignored the query of media on how a police officer could promote honour killing.